<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To members of the international digital arts and culture community:<div><br></div><div>Please consider adding your support and signing this open letter to the Arts Council England regarding their future policies of funding the digital arts and culture. The letter begins:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>"This letter, jointly drafted by a constituency of organisations, artists and practitioners who have been engaged in digital arts development in England, concerns digital culture and its importance to the wider UK arts ecology and economy. We the undersigned believe that clear national policies need to be developed to ensure that the UK can remain at the forefront of digital culture, globally, and that these must take account of the key role creative practices play in driving digital innovation.</div><br>Whilst we appreciate that digital technologies have created exciting opportunities to engage with audiences, and to disseminate and distribute arts programmes in new ways, it is critical that funders and policy-makers understand that this is not the extent of digital culture. If we are to make the most of the digital opportunity, it needs to be recognised at a national policy level that digital culture is about more than extending the reach of existing arts practices. It is about entirely new forms of production, expression, practice and critical reflection that digital technologies have made possible."</blockquote><div><br></div><div>To read the whole letter and sign please go to: <a href="http://www.coda2coda.net">http://www.coda2coda.net</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please forward this notice to people who may be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div>Paul</div><div><br><div><div>====<br>Paul Brown - based in OZ February to September 2011<br><a href="mailto:paul@paul-brown.com">mailto:paul@paul-brown.com</a> == <a href="http://www.paul-brown.com">http://www.paul-brown.com</a><br>OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900<br>OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown<br>====<br>Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University<br><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php">http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php</a><br>Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University<br><a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html</a><br>====<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>